MUNCIE, Ind. — When initially asked about her first weekend as a head coach a little over two years ago, Megan Ciolli Bartlett couldn't remember much.
Then the Ball State coach remembered why the 2016 season was such a blur.
"I was very pregnant," she recalls. "The kids were like, ‘I don’t want to hit you.' And I was like, 'You’re going to have to hit the ball harder to hit me all the way down there (at third base).'"
And then she remembered that opening game, a 22-4 loss to Louisiana Lafayette. And later in the weekend, a 17-1 loss to Southern Miss and an 8-0 loss to South Alabama.